Word: ribicoffs
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...John Alsop decided to present his credentials to the electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...
...outcries did not help. In Miami Beach, Fla., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council called upon labor leaders to gather in Washington in mid-March for a "National Emergency Conference" on the economy. In Connecticut, with 8.3% of the state's labor force out of work, Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash programs reminiscent...
...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner and Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff took up the campaign in hopes of winning the votes of commuters, mostly presumed to be Republican. Furthermore, both states are pressed for cash and would like to get some of the money going to New York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into...
...income tax laws instead of depending so heavily on sales and property taxes as they do now. Then commuters could credit taxes paid to their own states on their New York tax. But so far, neither New Jersey nor Connecticut want such a cure, for political reasons. Governor Ribicoff' who is up for reelection, says he is "unalterably opposed...
...Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they have-education, mental health and a multitude of other things." Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff was even more typical. Said Ribicoff: "It's like taking an omelet and trying to put it back in the eggshells. It's too late for that...